Gou's Liver Experience in the World of Demons and Demons

Although he strongly suspected that Nangong Yuexia and Gu Sheng were colluding, he had no concrete evidence. Pointing it out now would be useless and might even escalate the conflict. He could only endure it for the time being and swallow his anger, preparing to take revenge later.

Inside the tomb, there is no rotation of the sun and moon, only eternal starlight and silence.

Gu Sheng sat cross-legged on the ground, his mind completely immersed in the profound process of integrating with the Dao and forging his body. Time seemed to lose its meaning here; he didn't know how much time had passed—perhaps a day, perhaps two.

Finally, at a certain moment, his tightly closed eyes suddenly opened, and it seemed as if billions of stars were being born and dying in his eyes. Four different Daoist radiances finally converged and balanced deep in his eyes!
"melt!"

He uttered a deep and majestic Daoist voice!

Om-!
The entire tomb chamber, where the originally slowly flowing psychedelic nebula seemed to have received a supreme summons, suddenly accelerated, and transformed into a dazzling galaxy that stretched across the void!
Endless starlight converged from all directions, like rivers flowing into the sea, and finally condensed into an incomparably complex starlight mark in front of Gu Sheng's brow, containing many mysteries such as time and space, destiny, reality and illusion, and vitality!
The mark took shape, paused slightly, then transformed into a stream of light, instantly disappearing into Gu Sheng's brow.

boom!
An indescribable, majestic aura, like an ancient divine beast awakening from its slumber, erupted from Gu Sheng's body! His bones roared like thunder, his blood surged like the Yangtze River, and the radiance of the four Daoist principles flashed across his body before completely receding and perfectly merging into his limbs, torso, and head.

The Thousand Illusions Path forged his legs, giving him the foundation for extreme speed and transformation!

The path to immortality merged into his spine, bestowing upon him boundless vitality and an indestructible source!

He tempered his arms with divine power, condensing his supreme offensive and defensive strength!

The Dao of Fate imprinted itself on his sea of ​​consciousness, granting him the ability to perceive and understand destiny!
Thus, the four powerful Daoist principles have begun to merge, and the unique foundation of the Daoist body has been forged! The most difficult and dangerous step before breaking through to the Sect Realm has been successfully completed!

At the very moment the Dao body was formed, Gu Ling'er, who was protecting the Dharma, swayed and became almost completely transparent, as if she would disappear into the air at any moment.

Her face was as pale as paper, her breath was extremely weak, and her once bright eyes had lost their luster, leaving only deep fatigue.

When Gu Sheng was fusing the two relatively domineering Daoist styles, the Thousand Illusions Dao and the Divine Repelling Dao, she almost recklessly activated her innate essence to protect the key meridians of her legs and arms, placing an extremely heavy burden on her.

Even though he relied on absorbing the essence and blood of the Golden-Winged Roc to replenish his energy, he almost completely overexerted himself, damaging his very foundation.

But she persevered with her indomitable will until Gu Sheng began to integrate the most profound and mysterious Dao of Fate, which did not require her protection.

"Ling'er!"

Gu Sheng concealed his aura. Seeing Gu Ling'er's appearance, his heart tightened immediately. He quickly stepped forward, his tone filled with gratitude and concern.

"Thank you for your hard work! Please return to my body and rest!"

Without hesitation, he took out three Golden-Winged Roc Blood Essence Beads and handed them to Gu Ling'er.

"Take these and get back to normal as soon as possible."

However, Gu Ling'er shook her head weakly, her voice barely audible.

“No…no need, you bad guy…the way the spirit embryo recovers…is different from yours…I just need to return to the depths of your sea of ​​consciousness and nurture it with the help of your soul's essence, and soon…it will be able to recover to its peak…it doesn’t need these external aids…”

She forced a smile, looking at Gu Sheng with a peculiar connection and satisfaction in her eyes.

"Moreover... you have forged such a powerful Dao body... becoming even stronger... which is also a great thing for us spiritual embryos... The stronger you are, the stronger your soul origin will be, and we... will be able to benefit from it and grow faster..."

After saying that, she stopped insisting and transformed into an extremely dim ray of light, disappearing back into Gu Sheng's brow and returning to the warm, primordial place deep within his sea of ​​consciousness, where she fell into a deep slumber to recover her strength.

Gu Sheng felt a warm current surge in his heart as he sensed Gu Ling'er's faint yet resilient soul connection, which strengthened his resolve to improve his strength as soon as possible and protect everything around him.

He calmed himself down and began to tally up what he had gained and what he had lost.

As he focused his mind on his body, nearly half of the eighteen drops of the Golden-Winged Roc's life essence blood beads were now consumed.

By integrating the path to immortality and strengthening the vitality of the body, one is used.

By fusing the Thousand Illusions Path and the Divine Repelling Path, he forged two legs and two arms. Due to the domineering process, even with Gu Ling'er's assistance, he still consumed a full six!

Finally, the skull was tempered using the Dao of Fate to open the sea of ​​consciousness, which used up two more skulls.

"Nine left..."

Gu Sheng was silently calculating.

Three of these need to be kept as necessities for future journeys to the Northern Sea to awaken the Golden-Winged Roc egg.

This is both a promise and an opportunity.

He also had a plan for the remaining six. Some would be reserved for when he broke through to the King Realm, which would be another crucial hurdle. The other part would be used to open up specific meridians required for the powerful body-refining technique he obtained from the Eastern Emperor's Secret Realm—the "Thirty-Six Heavenly Cave Techniques".

This divine technique requires an enormous amount of resources, but once mastered, it will bring about a qualitative leap in physical ability.

"The harvest from this trip to Golden Wing Ridge was truly astonishing: the inheritance of the Fate Master, the remains of the Golden Winged Roc, essence blood... any one of these would be enough to drive the outside world crazy."

Gu Sheng thought to himself.

"But correspondingly, the consumption will be frighteningly rapid. Forging these four Daoist bodies, as well as cultivating the Thirty-Six Heavenly Divine Techniques in the future, will all require a huge amount of spiritual energy and resources to consume..."

Resources are something he will always need to constantly strive for on his path of martial arts.

"The most urgent task is to break through to the Sect Realm! Only by stepping into the Sect Realm can we truly unleash the power of our Dao Body and have the foundation to stand firm in the upcoming turmoil!"

His gaze sharpened, and he no longer hesitated. He took out one of the remaining Golden-Winged Roc essence blood beads and held it in mid-air in front of him.

He did not swallow it directly like ordinary martial artists, but used his own pure true energy and powerful mental strength to peel away the layers like unraveling a cocoon.

He extracted the purest spiritual energy and bloodline power from the crimson-gold blood bead, then methodically incorporated it into his body, guiding it into his dantian and sea of ​​qi to break through the invisible barrier between the Heavenly Martial Realm and the Sect Realm that had troubled him for so long!
This process may seem slow, but it is actually highly efficient, avoiding energy waste and disruption.

A moment later, when the power within the essence blood bead was drawn to a certain degree—

Rumble——!
The entire tomb chamber seemed unable to withstand this sudden burst of energy, and the walls began to tremble slightly! Centered on Gu Sheng, an incomparably powerful spiritual energy storm suddenly formed, instantly spreading out and transforming into a visible, milky-white spiritual energy tornado with a diameter of over several meters!
The vast spiritual energy seemed to have found an outlet, and it poured wildly into Gu Sheng's crown!

Click!

It was as if the crisp sound of porcelain shattering came from deep within his body!

The seemingly indestructible barrier of the Heavenly Martial Realm shattered like paper under the impact of this immense energy, which gathered the essence of the Golden-Winged Roc Sect's peak realm!

He had reached the Sect Realm! However, the breakthrough did not stop! The energy contained within that essence blood bead was simply too immense!
His cultivation level began to skyrocket like a rocket!
First level of sect realm!
Second level of Zong Realm!

triple!

Fourfold!

……

With unstoppable momentum, they advanced triumphantly all the way!
Finally, when the light of the essence blood bead completely dimmed and turned into ashes, the surging power within him slowly subsided.

Gu Sheng carefully sensed his own cultivation level, but his brows furrowed slightly.

"Seventh level of the Sect Realm...peak?"

He originally estimated that with the life essence of a Golden-Winged Roc at the peak of the Sect Realm, coupled with his profound accumulation and the Dao Body he had just forged, he should at least break through to the eighth level of the Sect Realm, or even touch the threshold of the ninth level.

"They couldn't even reach the eighth level..."

A faint sense of regret had just welled up in his heart, but when he carefully looked inward and sensed the vast, surging, and highly refined true energy in his dantian and meridians, which was like a boundless ocean, this regret instantly vanished, replaced by a sense of understanding and shock.

"That's it... it's the Nine Dragons Universe Technique!"

The mysterious cultivation technique he practiced was incredibly profound. One of its greatest features was that, at the same cultivation level, the total amount of true qi he could contain and refine far exceeded that of ordinary martial artists by several times, or even more! This also meant that the spiritual qi and energy he needed to accumulate to break through each minor realm was also several times that of martial artists at the same level!
"It seems that I have only broken through to the peak of the seventh level of the Sect Realm, which is lower than expected."

But the total amount, purity, and explosive power of my true energy at this moment are probably... even greater than when I first entered the King Realm in my previous life!

Having figured this out, a brilliant light instantly flashed in Gu Sheng's eyes!

"This 'Nine Dragons Universe Technique' is truly heaven-defying! It doesn't pursue rapid advancement in realms, but rather solidifies the foundation of each realm, striving for absolute strength that makes one invincible among those of the same level, and even capable of fighting beyond one's level!"

He fully understood the power of this technique. Although the cultivation speed might seem slower and the resources required for breakthroughs were greater, in the long run, this advantage in the total amount of true qi, far exceeding that of ordinary people, would give him overwhelming endurance and explosive power when facing opponents of the same level!
Moreover, the more robust and expansive meridians and the more vast sea of ​​qi also mean that he can withstand and mobilize more spiritual energy from heaven and earth, and even the power of origin!

"If that Ancestor of Longevity... truly has a flaw, or his strength is not perfect... with my current peak seventh level of the Sect Realm, yet possessing a total amount of true qi comparable to or even surpassing that of an ordinary ninth level Sect Realm cultivator, coupled with the power of my Dao Body, the inheritance of the Fate Master, and numerous trump cards... I might not be without a chance... to turn the tables!"

Gu Sheng slowly opened his eyes, his gaze sharp and restrained. The slightly violent fluctuations of true energy around him, caused by his recent breakthrough, had been forcibly suppressed and returned to calm.

He stood up, feeling the immense power surging within him, far surpassing anything he had ever experienced before, and a sense of fulfillment he had never felt before welled up inside him.

"The secret realm has been open for nearly three days. According to Situ Qingfeng, the twelve-hour time limit is approaching, and soon everyone will be expelled."

He calculated the time in his mind and dared not delay any longer.

He tried to move his hands and feet, but the strength he gained was so fast that he found it difficult to control perfectly for a while.

"Crack!"

The hard, neither gold nor jade ground beneath his feet was actually cracked by the force of his unintentional footsteps!

Gu Sheng frowned slightly.

"A surge in strength is certainly a good thing, but if it cannot be controlled precisely, it will become a weakness. I must familiarize myself with this new body and power as soon as possible."

He recalled the revelation he had received while interpreting the celestial phenomena in the tomb—another treasure left behind by the God of Fate was located in the South Hall.

"Nearly two days have passed; I wonder if someone else has already gotten there first..."

A sense of urgency arose spontaneously.

Without further hesitation, he moved swiftly and sped toward the tomb's exit.

As he left, he deliberately controlled his strength, but in the first few steps, he still left two deep footprints on the ground, showing that his strength had not been completely restrained.

However, just as he rushed out of the main hall and stepped onto the passageway outside that had once been filled with shadows, something strange happened.

He was on high alert, ready to deal with the attacks from those troublesome shadowy figures.

But the dark figures that had been wandering in the passage, upon sensing his presence, did not attack. Instead, they cowered and retreated into the shadows on both sides of the passage as if they had encountered a natural enemy, even faintly conveying a sense of fear and submission.

Gu Sheng was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly realized, and his gaze fell on the invisible mark on his finger that had disappeared and was related to the Palm of Fate.

"Is it because of it...?"

He understood perfectly, but his steps did not falter.

What's even more astonishing is the terrifying speed at which he adapted to his surging strength as he continued forward. On the tunnel floor, his footprints, initially deep, gradually faded until they were barely perceptible…

After walking just over a thousand steps, as he was about to reach the end of the passage and return to the magnificent main hall where he had initially triggered the bronze stele, his steps became light and precise, leaving no trace on the ground!

In a short period of time, he had already gained initial control over this power he had suddenly acquired!
Stepping back into the empty main hall, Gu Sheng glanced around and noticed that the dark figures in the passageway were still keeping their distance, not daring to approach.

His suspicions became even clearer.

"These shadowy figures are probably the transformations of countless warriors who, from ancient times to the recent past, searched for the place where the God of Fate perished, and ultimately failed and died here."

They were assimilated by the secret realm, becoming part of its protective mechanism, while the Yin Compass of Fate seems to possess a natural power to restrain and control them.

His gaze immediately fell on the center of the hall.

There, the bronze stone tablet that once radiated a mysterious starlight has now lost its luster, become mottled and covered with cracks from the passage of time, as if it might collapse completely at any moment.

Gu Sheng stepped forward and gently touched the monument.

Wow…

Like weathered rock, the entire bronze stele shattered completely the moment his fingertips touched it, turning into inconspicuous fragments and dust.

Among the fragments, a compass, roughly the size of a palm, entirely black, and bearing a seven or eight-tenths resemblance to the celestial horoscope, yet radiating a completely different aura of coldness and death, quietly emerged. (End of Chapter)